Codex Office Skills: 12 Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF Examples
Try Codex's Spreadsheets, Documents, Presentations, and PDF file Skills with twelve simple, intermediate, and advanced examples and a downloadable practice kit.
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How to Turn a Source-Linked Report Into an Accessible Interactive Web Page With AI
Turn a source-linked report into an accessible interactive web page without losing citations, denominators, limitations, or approval state. Follow a tested conversion with downloadable HTML and checks.
How to Create a Premium Editable PowerPoint With Codex
Follow a tested Codex workflow for creating a premium editable PowerPoint, including the rejected first pass, reusable Skill, original visuals, and honest compatibility checks.
How to Turn a PowerPoint Into a Source-Linked Report With AI
Turn an existing PowerPoint into a useful report without mistaking the slides for evidence. This workflow shows how to inspect the deck, reconnect original records, preserve uncertainty, and verify the finished document.
AI Presentation Makers for Editable PowerPoint: 5 Free and Trial Routes
Choose an AI presentation maker by source material and final handoff. Compare five free or trial PPTX paths, then inspect the exported file before sharing it.
Grok Bot Safe Start Guide: Build One Accountable AI Teammate
A source-reviewed Grok Bot safe setup guide for choosing one useful job, following the official installation path, protecting the shared cloud computer, and scheduling only after two reviewed runs.
Keep a Document, Spreadsheet, and Presentation Consistent
Follow a fictional vendor-renewal example from source register to workbook, memo, slides, and a release gate—then reuse the included blank templates.
Build an Audit Evidence Request Tracker That Preserves Review Boundaries
Build and reproduce a review-only PBC tracker with four explicit evidence states, a downloadable CSV, an answer-blind AI run, and an independent readiness gate.
Create a Change Impact Matrix—and Catch the Domain AI Misses
Build a source-linked change impact matrix from a request and project records, then reproduce the real first-pass omission and checker-guided correction.
Turn a Contract and Policy Into a Vendor Onboarding Control Register
Convert an executed agreement, internal policy, and evidence register into a review-ready vendor onboarding checklist with explicit blockers and a closed go-live gate.
Build Verified Shift Handover Notes From Work Orders With AI
Turn work orders and operator notes into a review-ready shift handover while keeping safety controls, source IDs, unknowns, and receiver acknowledgement intact.
Build a Clause-Traceable Contract Obligation Tracker With AI
Build a review-only obligation register from an executed agreement with clause IDs, exact evidence, trigger logic, unresolved dates, and legal and operational release gates.
Create a Project Handover Document With AI From Project Records
Create a project handover from project records with a complete example, editable template, three AI prompts, and guidance for six transfer situations.
How to Turn a Sales Call Transcript Into Verified CRM Notes With AI
Draft CRM call notes with reusable AI prompts, source quotes, clear action statuses, budget controls, and a review process for field updates and follow-up tasks.
How to Generate Mock Interview Questions With AI From Your Resume and a Job Description
Build a varied interview question set from your resume and a job description, review its assumptions, and practise with follow-ups, worked examples, and a preparation schedule.
Build a STAR Interview Story Bank With AI From Your Work Log—Without Inventing Results
Build a STAR story bank from work notes with checked claims, role-specific story choices, speaking outlines, and prompts for follow-up practice.
How to Write a Performance Review Self-Assessment With ChatGPT From a Work Log
Write a performance self-assessment with ChatGPT using a complete work-log example, checked metrics, shared-credit guidance, and practical prompts.
How to Create a Project Risk Register With AI From a Project Brief
Draft a source-linked project risk register with copyable AI prompts, a worked example, team-reviewed ratings and responses, and a plan for ongoing review.
How to Create Pet Sitter Instructions With AI
Create clear pet sitter instructions from your current care notes, with AI prompts, editable handoff pages and a visit log for routine care, medication and emergencies.
How to Create a Home Inventory With AI From Photos
Use photos and AI to draft a home inventory, then check counts, duplicates, labels, and records. Includes a spreadsheet template and guidance for moving, renters, and missing receipts.
How to Build a Skill-Gap Learning Plan From Your Resume and Job Postings With AI
Use AI to compare your resume with dated job postings, separate learning needs from missing evidence, and build a realistic plan with practice tasks and checks.
How to Turn an Appliance Manual and Error Code Into a Safe Troubleshooting Checklist With AI
Use your exact appliance manual and displayed code to draft and review owner checks, handle missing information, and prepare a clear service record.
How to Turn Time Logs and a Rate Sheet Into a Verified Invoice With AI
Use AI to organize time logs, then verify source IDs, eligibility, rates, rounding, adjustments, and the final invoice file.
How to Build a Verified Course Deadline and Submission Checklist With AI
Build a source-linked course checklist with AI. Check conflicting dates, quiz windows, time zones, group work, required files, and submission confirmation.
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Can an AI Agent Edit an Excel Workbook Without Breaking Formulas? A Univer CLI Test
A Univer CLI test preserved eight formula strings and correct caches through five typed edits, but the export lost the source workbook's checkbox cell-control metadata.
Why it fits here: The controlled edit is performed on an existing work spreadsheet.
How to Use ChatGPT Voice to Manage Codex Tasks on Desktop
Use ChatGPT Voice to start and follow Codex desktop tasks. Learn how to target the right project, verify a test run, switch tasks, and avoid permission and screen-context surprises.
Why it fits here: Voice is used to manage desktop task work.
How to Turn Saved Articles and Highlights Into a Source-Linked Writing Brief With AI
Turn a messy read-later queue into a focused writing brief without letting AI flatten disagreement, detach highlights from context, or invent the missing evidence.
Why it fits here: The source-linked brief is an editable work deliverable.
AI-Assisted Bank Reconciliation: Match Rows, Then Prove the Balance
Reproduce a bank-to-ledger blind test where AI discovers two matches, classifies a fee and outstanding check, and an independent calculator proves both adjusted balances.
Why it fits here: The reconciliation produces a controlled finance work record.
Find Duplicate Invoice Candidates Without Freezing Legitimate Bills
Reproduce an eight-row duplicate-invoice test that finds one exact pair and one supplier-alias candidate while protecting a credit memo and legitimate same-amount bills.
Why it fits here: The candidates are checked within an invoice review process.
Run a Review-Only PO, Receipt, and Invoice Match With AI
Use AI to structure a three-way purchase match, then verify quantities, unit prices, unsupported amounts, tolerances, duplicates, tax, and the payment hold yourself.
Why it fits here: The review supports an accounts-payable work process.
How to Build an RFP Compliance Matrix With AI—and Verify Every Requirement
Build an RFP compliance matrix by giving every requirement its own row, keeping the buyer's exact wording and source location, and linking that row to supporting evidence and a specific answer in your proposal. Use AI to extract candidate requirements and suggest evidence matches. Check the candidates against the complete solicitation, then track evidence sufficiency and proposal completion in separate columns.
Why it fits here: The output is a requirement-traceable business work document.
How to Turn Receipts Into a Verified Expense Spreadsheet With AI
Turn receipt photos into a checked expense workbook. Follow practical extraction prompts, verify amounts, handle tips, refunds and mixed purchases, and keep unresolved claims visible.
Why it fits here: The verified table is an office expense deliverable.
Gemini Gems vs Codex Skills: Which Reusable AI Workflow Fits?
Choose between Codex Skills and Gemini Gems with concrete setup examples, Drive and sharing limits, and clearly bounded test evidence.
Why it fits here: The comparison helps choose a reusable format for recurring work.
How to Write Unit Tests With ChatGPT That Catch Real Bugs
Write unit tests with ChatGPT from a clear behavior contract, run them, and check whether they fail for wrong results or unwanted service calls.